Mahagonny Songplay by Kurt Weill & Bertoldt Brecht Judith Bardi, soprano; Eric Benson, Tenor; Sean Barker, Baritone; Michael Wilson, Baritone Staged by Nicholas Deutsch Conducted by Mimi Stern-Wolfe Projections by Campbell Baird

Mahagonny Songplay by Kurt Weill & Bertoldt Brecht Chris DeBlasio, Tenor; Eric Benson, Tenor; Sean Barker, Baritone; Michael Wilson, Baritone; Judith Bardi, Soprano; Adelle Nicholson, Mezzo-Soprano Staged by Nicholas Deutsch Conducted by Mimi Stern-Wolfe Projections by Campbell Baird

L'histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) by Igor Stravinsky Joanne Edelmann as "The Princess" Marshall Coid as "The Soldier" Staged by Eric Benson

"Igor Stravinski's L'Histoire du Soldat was conveyed firmly and confidently by Miss Stern-Wolfe's eight musicians including the Soldier-violinist as played by Marshall Coid."
Bernard Holland
New York Times
Feb 4, 1986

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Marshall Coid, counter-tenor as "The Bundle Man" with Steven Goldstein, Daryl Hendriken & Stephen Kalra

Musical Theatre and Opera Reviews:

"The Bundle Man, chamber opera by Ilsa Gilbert and Marshall Coid . . . deserves more exposure and circulation even if it may not always be produced as effectively as it was by the Downtown Chamber & Opera Players . . . the material's deep poetic and dramatic impulses are very real and never compromised. Ilsa Gilbert's text has an arresting verbal pungency that Marshall Coid matches in a musical setting remarkable for its sustained lyricism and skillful prosody . . . Mimi Stern-Wolfe's assured musical direction, Tom O'Horgan's fluid staging . . . contributed positively to a first rate presentation."
Peter G. Davis
New York Magazine

"The Downtown Chamber & Opera Players presented a mixed media bill of . . . chamber music, poetry, song, opera, dance and film accurately entitled "Paris Around the Twenties" The piece de resistance was Eric Satie's one act Genevieve de Brabant conducted by Mimi Stern-Wolfe. As befitting the irrepressible Satie, it was the height of drollery."
Jack Diether
The Westsider
March 14, 1985

 

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"A Libretto Captures a City's Spirit: Waking In New York with text by Allen Ginsberg, musicalized by Elodie Lauten" presented Ginsberg's texts with clarity and directness" with accompanying evocative slides of New York by Phyllis Stevens, conducted by Mimi Stern-Wolfe and the Downtown Chamber & Opera Players at the 14th Street Y."
Allan Kozinn
The New York Times
June 6, 2001

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